Mike Dudas, 'The Block' Founder and Paxos VP: Crypto, Venmo vs. CashApp, Andrew Yang, and More

Summary: Ryan Zauk sits down with one of the crypto world's most popular figures, Mike Dudas. Mike navigated a long career spanning Disney, Google, Venmo, and Circle before founding The Block, one of the world's premier research and news sources for all things crypto and blockchain. Mike recently stepped back into a Chairman role at The Block, moving to Paxos as their VP of Stable Coin Business Development. The Block: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/ On today's episode, Mike and Ryan discuss: - The Venmo / CashApp battle of the last few years (6:45) - When Mike first learned about Bitcoin and realized its massive potential (10:50) - The new wave of DeFi and how this technology will disrupt incumbents (14:04) - The Block and why its model will be the business model of the future (17:00) - How he went about deciding to build The Block with no journalism experience (22:05) - His passionate, outspoken support for Andrew Yang for Mayor of NYC (24:30) - And a great rapid-fire round (28:30) For more FinTech insights, follow us below: Medium: medium.com/wharton-fintech WFT Twitter: twitter.com/whartonfintech Ryan's Twitter: twitter.com/RyanZauk LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/wharton-fintech-club/